Verse 41

⁴¹Tell us of the yoga of works, by which a person, made fit through it, shakes off works here quickly and finds the highest state, where there is no work left. ⁴²I put this question to the sages before, in my father's presence, and the sons of Brahma gave no answer. Let the reason for that be told. ⁴³Work, no work, wrong work: this is the Veda's own speech and not the speech of common men. And because the Veda has the Lord for its self, even the learned are bewildered there. ⁴⁴This Veda speaks of what is out of sight; it is the teaching given to children. It lays down works for the sake of release from works, the way medicine is given.

⁴⁵But a man who does not do what the Veda says, knowing nothing himself and not master of his senses, goes by wrong work and by wrongdoing to a death beyond death. ⁴⁶One who does only what the Veda says, unattached, and lays it before the Lord, gains the perfection in which there is no work left. Hearing of a fruit is there to make the work look attractive.